Great Zcott!
(the Great Enclosure on the left, home to only the most favored wives of the king) While in Zimbabwe we decided to check out Great Zimbabwe, the largest pre-colonial structure in sub-Saharan Africa. There's not a lot to say about it really, the pictures really tell the story. (The king and his buddies live on the top of the hill. Sorry, no girls allowed) I don't really remember the facts unfortunately. It is dated to around the 15th (or was it 12th?) century. It is now accepted that it was built by bantu speaking peoples, despite the best efforts of white historians to ascribe it to just about anyone other than the Natives- Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, whoever. (Scholars postulate that this structure could possibly be phallic in nature. Hard to imagine) It was thought that about 2000 people resided there in its heyday, with status determining who makes it inside the walls. It was abandoned well before the colonists arrived, for unknown reasons. (The walls appear to be built...